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National Security Archive Update, April 30, 2010 HISTORIC DISSIDENT JOURNAL PUBLISHED ONLINE
Original Russian-Language “Problems of Eastern Europe” Connected Soviet, Eastern and Western Publics New Russia Web Page Features Digitized Soviet Documents On Missile Crisis, Afghanistan, End of Cold War, and Dissidents From National Security Archive Collections English introduction – www.nsarchive.org/rus New Russian-language page – www.nsarchive.org/rus/Index.html Washington, DC, April 30, 2010 – A rare complete series of Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, April 29, 2010: BREAKING DOWN SOVIET MILITARY SECRECY
Previously unpublished documents from inside the Kremlin shed new light on how Soviet and American scientists breached the walls of Soviet military secrecy in the final years of the Cold War… These glasnost tours punctured some of the myths and legends of both sides. They showed that the Reagan administration had exaggerated Soviet capabilities and… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, April 10, 2010: KISSINGER BLOCKED DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL ASSASSINATIONS TO CONDOR STATES
Only five days before a car-bomb planted by agents of the Pinochet regime rocked downtown Washington D.C. on September 21, 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions sent to, but never implemented by, U.S. ambassadors in the Southern Cone to warn military leaders there against orchestrating “a series of international murders,” declassified documents obtained… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, April 8, 2010: How Much is Enough? Part II
The new START Treaty signed today in Prague represents “real” but “modest” cuts in strategic nuclear forces comparable to some Cold War alternatives but still higher than the most far-reaching proposals considered by Presidents Reagan and Carter, according to documents posted today by the National Security Archive. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, April 7, 2010 Why is “Poodle Blanket” Classified? Still More Dubious Secrets at the Pentagon
In a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the Pentagon claims that “Poodle Blanket” contingency plans from 1961 for a possible confrontation over West Berlin (no longer divided) with the Soviet Union (no longer a country) still need to be secret for fear of damage to current U.S. national security, according to… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, March 30, 2010: Uraguay – BORDABERRY CONDEMNED FOR 1973 COUP
For the first time in Latin America, a judge has sent a former head of state to prison for the crime of an “Attack against the Constitution.” In an unprecedented ruling last month in Montevideo, former Uruguayan President Juan María Bordaberry was sentenced to serve 30 years for undermining Uruguay’s constitution through an auto-coup on… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, March 16, 2010: Presidential statement, White House memorandum, Attorney General speech mark Sunshine Week
Archive findings show agencies lagged in fulfilling Obama orders: “A for effort, Incomplete for results”; says Archive director Continue reading
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2010 Rosemary Award for Worst Open Government Performance Goes to Federal Chief Information Officers’ Council
National Security Archive cites CIO Council for “lifetime failure” To address crisis in government e-mail preservation Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, March 9, 2010: Archival Evidence of Mexico’s Human Rights Crimes: The Case of Aleida Gallangos
The National Security Archive today posted a selection of U.S. and Mexican records containing evidence of human rights crimes committed during Mexico’s brutal “dirty war” against leftists in the 1970s. Continue reading
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